Stacking size

[MrJings]

Ive been watching the game on youtube alot and the only thing that seems troubleing to me is the stack size and some items dont stack even im huge hoarder i love to hoard materials and stuff are there plans to increase the stack capacity?

[Harbingerman]

get the bigger box ... maybe you can stack the storage boxes ... lol

[MrJings]

Originally posted by Harbingerman:

get the bigger box ... maybe you can stack the storage boxes ... lol

hmm will see but i hope its not gonna stay like that xD its gona hurt my hoarding

[Ataxio]

Oh no.. what's the stack size? If this is like Void Train I'm gonna be upset.

Hoarding is a way of life for me.

[Weaver]

Don't hoard too much and you'll be fine, especially metal, you'll always have too much. You'll eventually get larger sized storage, but it takes some time. It's supposed to be painful at first, just like resource gathering and food and water, but tech up some an it becomes easier

If you've ever played Raft, you'll be right at home and you'll know what to expect. Same sort of curve with store/food/automation/speed, and so forth. Thankfully, no sky shark chewing on your ballon.

[Ataxio]

I'm not happy unless I have literal hoards of each item, based off its consumption ect. Absolutely hate having to stop what I'm doing because I lack some random componant I could have simply had a huge box full of.

In Void Train the global stack size was like... 5 just unreasonably low and it nearly singled handedly killed that game for us. Submautica I became addicted to the auto-sort lockers mod and can't even play the game anymore because the mod author stopped updating it.

Totally get this is mostly a me thing, but I really hope we don't have weirdly small stack sizes. Gameiness is always better then forced realism so I hope it's not a matter of pushing realism.

[Weaver]

It's item dependent. Common resources stack 1,5, or 50. The more common and basic the resource the higher the stack size in general. It's just your starting containers only have 6 slots, and you have 20 slots for your personal inventory. Up to 5 tools go into your action bar and don't take up normal inventory.

[Teraphina]

the biggest complaint i have seen is food decays so it wont ever stack. would be nice for an option toggle for no decay timer on food and let it stack while no timer

[Ataxio]

Originally posted by Weaver:

It's item dependent. Common resources stack 1,5, or 50. The more common and basic the resource the higher the stack size in general. It's just your starting containers only have 6 slots, and you have 20 slots for your personal inventory. Up to 5 tools go into your action bar and don't take up normal inventory.

Oh that sounds fine if it's item independent. Sorta used to that from subnautica. I can't even properly recall if things stacked at all there, I don't think they did. As long as we have a way to stash tons of stuff somehow I'm fine.

[ferus]

Yeah, the stacking is inconsistent. I don't understand why we can stack some things while others we can't.
I mean, I can't stack fruit while it's fresh but as soon as it rots I can stack those? It doesn't make sense.

As for hoarding - in survival games I like to get food in advance so I don't have to hunt/craft/cook it while doing other things.
In FS the food spoils very fast. So you won't be able to hoard everything anyway.

[FFH_Greg]

Originally posted by ferus:

Yeah, the stacking is inconsistent. I don't understand why we can stack some things while others we can't.
I mean, I can't stack fruit while it's fresh but as soon as it rots I can stack those? It doesn't make sense.

As for hoarding - in survival games I like to get food in advance so I don't have to hunt/craft/cook it while doing other things.
In FS the food spoils very fast. So you won't be able to hoard everything anyway.

Sounds like you need to find the freezer

[FFH_Greg]

Originally posted by Ataxio:

Oh no.. what's the stack size? If this is like Void Train I'm gonna be upset.

Hoarding is a way of life for me.

Varies from item to item

[ferus]

Originally posted by FFH_Greg:

Originally posted by ferus:

Yeah, the stacking is inconsistent. I don't understand why we can stack some things while others we can't.
I mean, I can't stack fruit while it's fresh but as soon as it rots I can stack those? It doesn't make sense.

As for hoarding - in survival games I like to get food in advance so I don't have to hunt/craft/cook it while doing other things.
In FS the food spoils very fast. So you won't be able to hoard everything anyway.

Sounds like you need to find the freezer

Ah, thanks for the heads up. I was hoping there would be something like that.
I got to the end of the EA so I assumed that's that. I will give it a go and try to find one.


One question if you don't mind - will we get a bigger inventory at some point in the game?

[FFH_Greg]

Originally posted by ferus:

Originally posted by FFH_Greg:

Sounds like you need to find the freezer

Ah, thanks for the heads up. I was hoping there would be something like that.
I got to the end of the EA so I assumed that's that. I will give it a go and try to find one.


One question if you don't mind - will we get a bigger inventory at some point in the game?

I believe its in the plans. I would recommend demanding it from the feedback option in the games pause menu just to make sure!

There should still be much to discover, even when completing all objectives. Check for ?'s on the radar. They're all undiscovered locations with new tech to find.

[MrJings]

Originally posted by FFH_Greg:

Originally posted by ferus:

Ah, thanks for the heads up. I was hoping there would be something like that.
I got to the end of the EA so I assumed that's that. I will give it a go and try to find one.


One question if you don't mind - will we get a bigger inventory at some point in the game?

I believe its in the plans. I would recommend demanding it from the feedback option in the games pause menu just to make sure!

There should still be much to discover, even when completing all objectives. Check for ?'s on the radar. They're all undiscovered locations with new tech to find.

That is helpfull cant wait to play :D

[moonfeast]

i don't understand whats the point of making the inventory system so cumbersome, do people actually find inventory management fun?? it breaks game momentum and most of the games people add mods to increase stack size, why not just increase stack size and let us hoard